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Patented Jan. s, 191s.

Applitlnn nel mi' 4, 1917. .exkl lo. 194,705.

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Be it known t t we, Taonas Cox- Noux and Josera B. CoNNoLLY citizens, of the United States, residing at Washington, in the lDistrict of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Intermi-Combustion Engines, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to ythe accompanying drawing.

This' invention has relation to internal combustion engines and has for its ob] ect the provision of novel means for scouring or scavenging the cylinder.

Our -invention is primarily an improvement on engines of the two cycle type. at resentconstructed,'engines` of the two cyc e type are' adapted to take in gas and exhaust an exploded charge simultaneously and under such conditions that the fresh and explodedcharge commingle thus reducing the purity of the charge and contaminating the same with non-explosive products of combustion. vThis contamination gradually increases during the operation of the engine and tends eventually to increase impurity in the mixture from a negligible to a serious degree and reduces the explosive character of thecharge to such an extent as to reatly lessen the eificiency of the stroke of t e piston and frequently toV prevent explosion and stroke altogether.V

Uur invention aims at` andv secures in two cycle engines a complete scavengin ofthe cylinders at such intervals as wil e ectually prevent undue cloggin `and deterioration `of the contents of the cy inder and thus does away withthe principal objection to two cycle engines.

In the accompanying drawing, F1gure 1 is `,an end elevation, partly in section, of an enV ine embodying our invention.

gig. 2'is a side elevation of the same.

Fig. 3 is an end'elevation' of a modilied fom a i Fi 4 is a vertical, sectional view on line X Fig. 1 and on an enlarged-scale.

Fig. 5 is a sectional view online Y`Y fn carrying our invention i nto eil'ect weV adopt as a model for the application of our improvement a two cycle engine of any well known'type havin a cylinder *1, withcranjk communicates the inlet 8 from' the carbureter and in which the -fresh c arge'is compressed by the outstroke ofthe piston f1, and forced through the piston 4, which 1s of plunger type, and through the ports'4 -an the sides of the iston and the ports 4" 4", in the wall of t e cylinder which at the extreme outward position of the piston register with the ports 4 4 in the iston and thence under a recessed plate 3 xed on the cylinder o posite the inlet 3 and thence into the cylin er 1 through the row of ports 6' in the cylinder wall, to be further compressed for firing. The exhaust passages 5, in such engine are so located that exhaust begins on the outstroke of the piston and during the period of intake from the crank case to the cylinder and continues until the piston makes part of its instroke. To cause a thorough scavenging of the cylinder we provide'the latter with a separate and supplementary exhaust port 6, and passage 7 leading to a rotary valve 8, and provide a puppet valve 9, therein, which is normally closed by a spring 10, and provide the cylinder at its end with a recess 11, and with' a reciprocating plunger 12, the rod 13, of which carries a dog 14, to engage with the teeth 'of a ratchet wheel 15 secured to the spindle 16 of the rotary valve 8, and so arrange the connections of plunger 12, that at each compression instroke of the piston the plunger will be forced outward by pressure a and caused to engage with a tooth of the ratchet wheel 15, and on its return stroke, im elled b spring 12', will turn the ratchet w eel an with it the rotary valve 8, a distance corresponding to the number of teeth of the ratchet. The stem 9 of the puppet valve 9 which will be depressed when the plunger 12, is forced outward also carries a dog 14 engagin with the teeth of the ratchet wheel 15 so. t at when the valve `9 rises after completion of a sup lementary exhaust stroke of the piston as ereinafter described it will turn the ratchet wheel the distance of one tooth.

Assuming the'en ine to be running 'andoperating as an or inary two cycle eng-in'e, it will be seen that at the expiration of every power stroke of, the'piston, the rotary valve 8 will be turned-by the inward movement;V

of the plunger 12 and that once in everyy complete revolution it will present an o n vport to -the exhaust port in the cylin er,

tar valve. Upon completion ofthe exhaust an consequent reductlon of pressure 1n .the cylinder the puppet valve 9 is forced against 'its Seat by its spring 10, thereby turning the ratchet wheel and with it the rotary valve to closed port, thus restoring conditions so that the engine will operate as an ordinary two cycle engine until the next period of complete exhaust arrives.

Instead of-depending on the conditions of internal cylinder pressure to operate the exhaust devlces, the more positive means illustrated in Fig. 3 may be employed. In this plan the ratchet and rotary valve are dispensed with, and thesupplementary exhaust port 5 and puppet valve-5, so located and arran ed that the latter, having its seat in partition 5 will be opened by a cam 16', arranged to press against the stem of the valve and carried by the shaft of a. gear wheel, 17, meshing with a pinion 18 on the power shaft 19 so that after a certain number of complete revolutions of the latter, correspondin tjomstrokes of the iston, the cam will stri e the valve rod` an open the valve thus allowing the complete exhaust to. take place. As soon as the cam 16l passes the valve rod, the valve willclose by spring pressure.

What we claim is 1. The `combination with the cylinder and piston of an internal combustion engine having an exhaust passage leading the'rej from, of a supplementary exhaust port lend-- ing from the cylinder, an exhaust valve and operative mechanism associated therewith and arranged and adapted to open the supplementary exhaust port at periodic intervals following a plurality of power strokes of the piston. y

, 2.v The combination with the cylinder and piston of an internal combustion engine aving an inlet for gas and an exhaust passage, of a supplementary exhaust passage, an exhaust Yalve in said passage and mechanism for opening said exhaust valve after aplurality of power strokes of the piston.

3, The combination with the cylinder and piston of an internal combustion engine having a valveless exhaust passage, opened and closed by the piston, of a supplementary exhaust and means for openino the latter and further exhausting the cylinder at intervals between series of two cycleopera tions.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures .in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS A. CONNOLLY. JOSEPH B. CONNOLLY.

Witnesses: Im P. HINEs, BENNETT S. JONES. 

